ABSTRACT
VILLAGE Fijians are subject to a Fijian Administration designed to govern them as a separate ethnic entity within the Colony. The Fijian Administration has been vigorously supported by its proponents who see it as a device to prevent the Fijian from being swamped politically and economically by Europeans and Indians, and as an instrument to provide political self-expression for the Fijian people along the well-tried lines of British Indirect Rule, and to encourage the growth of responsibility and executive experience. Most Fijian leaders in positions of authority support the separate identity of the Fijian Administration, influenced primarily by the negative consideration of defence against aliens, and partly because the Administration provides the only sure career of major importance at present open to most of them. This support is tempered by criticism when the Administration is considered to be ineffective in its policies.
